Food product.



H. M. ISAAGS.

FOOD PRODUCT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7, 1911.

1,080,971. Patented Dec.9,1913.

WITNESSES INVENTOR;

M m. Q w m HERBERT M. ISAAGS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

FOOD PRODUCT.

Application filed April 7, 1911.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9,1913.

Serial No. 619,460.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERBERT M. ISAACS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in FoodProducts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of food products which combine inthemselves nuts and candy so that the two are conveniently eatentogether as a mixture.

The objects of the present invention are to combine nuts and candy in anovel and attractive manner; to provide a food product of this sort inwhich the real character of the food product may not be apparent untilone begins to partake of it; to so combine candy with nuts as that thefood products may be conveniently handled without softening, or soilingthe fingers; to utilize the natural shell of the nut as a con tainer forthe candy also; to thus effect a combination of results in a simple andinexpensive manner, and to obtain other advantages and results as may bebrought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals ofreference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure1 is a side view of a peanut such as I prefer to employ to produce myimproved food product; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a piece of candysuch as may be employed in producing my improved food product; Fig. 3isan edge view of the peanut with one of its kernals removed and a pieceof candy being inserted in place thereof; Fig. 4 is a similar edge viewwith the piece of candy inside and the shell closed; Fig. 5 is a centrallongitudinal section of a food product of my improved construction,taken along the line of splitting of the peanut shell, and Fig. 6 is atransverse section of the same, taken on line A-A of Fig. 4.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the shell of an ordinary peanut, which incarrying out my invention is split for a portion of its length, as at 2,so that the halves 3, 3 of the shell will spring apart far enough topermit the kernal at that end of the peanut to be extracted, the kernel4 at the other end of the peanut remaining in place. A piece of candy 5is inserted between the sprung-apart ends 3, 3 to replace the peanutkernel which has been removed, and then the halves 3 of the peanutshellare allowed to close together again. Preferably the split edges of thepeanut shell are moistened with an adhesive before being allowed toclose, so that they adhere when brought together, as shown in Fig. 4.

I thus produce a food product consisting of a peanut shell containing atone end a peanut kernel and at the other end a piece of candy, the wholehaving the appearance of an ordinary peanut. When eaten, therefore, apiece of candy is obtained for every peanut kernel and an even mixtureof the two thus secured, the proportions of which mixture can be variedby varying the size of the piece of candy. Moreover, the candy can bevaried in nature or kind to suit different tastes. A food productprepared in this form can be eaten without the candy softening in thefingers or soiling the same, since the candy is separated into smallpieces ready for eating, which are protected by the peanut shell untiltaken into the mouth.

Obviously, the candy could be introduced into the emptied end of thepeanut shell in a softened form so as to harden or be molded therein, ifdesired. Furthermore, other nuts besides peanuts can be used for mypurpose, such as English walnuts, for example, where one-half of thekernel can be taken out and replaced by candy. It is immaterial whatkind of nut is used, so long as a portion of the kernel can be removed,a piece of candy inserted and the shell closed again, but I preferpeanuts because they are well adapted to the purpose, are generallyeaten, and so forth. Again, it might be possible that some one wouldwish to insert a piece of some other edible matter than candy into thecavity of a nut-shell made by removing a portion of the kernel, and Iwish to be understood as covering this also by my present' invention. Araisin might be substituted for the removed kernel, or any other kind ofedible material which could be agreeably eaten with the nut.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. The herein-described food product, consisting of a portion of ediblenut meat or kernel and a portion of other edible matter inclosedtogether in the natural shell of a nut.

2. The herein-described food product, consisting of an edible nut meator kernel and a piece of candy inclosed together in the ter of anotherkind inclosed Within said shell in the cavity formed by the said removalof a portion of the edible nut meat.

HERBERT M. ISAACS.

natural shell of a nut normally containing two meats 0r kernels.

3. The herein-described food product, consisting of a portion of ediblenut meat remaining in natural position in the shell of a nut from whichthe rest of the edible meat has been removed and a piece of edible mat-Witnesses:

CORNELIUS ZABRIsKIE, FRANCES E. BLODGETT.

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